Re: Machine/Domain Name
Chris, what you see below is what you need to change. I'm not sure what you mean when you say cwaiken.com is a redirector. If it just relays email for you that isn't good enough. When you attach to a SMTP server the HELO or EHLO is given with a single parameter: your fully-qualified domain name. Some servers are configured to try to check this domain name by resolving it to an IP and then checking to see if that IP matches the IP address of the peer on the connection. If such a check doesn't match it won't take mail. So, what you need to do is if you're on a dialup you need to update the exim config file as Terry has indicated and restart exim. Alternatively you could register with a dynamic dns provider, to have something like cwaiken.dyndns.org. In either case you can effect this by modifying your PPP ip-up script(s).
Terry Boon wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
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> > I have exim setup with my ISP's smtp server for outgoing
> > mail. Mail gets delivered to everyone I send to except
> > to my office.
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> > How do I change the name of my machine to darkstar.cwaiken.com?
> > cwaiken.com is my domain name at a re-director service and is
> > resolvable and should work.
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> You may want to look at primary_hostname in your exim.conf. The
> following is the automatic documentation of the variable:
>
> # Specify the name of the current host. This is used in the HELO
> # command for outgoing SMTP messages, and as the default for qualify_domain.
> # If it is not set, Exim calls uname() to find it.
>
> primary_hostname = [snip]
>
> - --
> Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK
> terry@counterfactual.org
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